So character sketches for the modern AU I have not forgotten about
1) Cassandra Gladstone; Merry-Weather; Riff & Cain and Emmeline
2) Jezabel & Cassian

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So character sketches for the modern AU I have not forgotten about
1) Cassandra Gladstone; Merry-Weather; Riff & Cain and Emmeline
2) Jezabel & Cassian
Modern character designs
Omg, I also ship Cain and Crehador! I really liked how Crehador stepped up to the plate after Riff left. I also really love the idea of daddy!Cain! I would love to hear more headcanons on that! Maybe even a drabble, if you got one! (personally, I feel like Cain would be an excellent dad, and spoil tf out of her)
((I don’t know if this is what you’re looking for, but here! Forgive any blatant editing errors, I just scribbled it. Abel is Merry and Oscar’s son, by the way, and is an old character of mine.Riff and Cain will adopt children of their own later. Also I don’t really ship Cain and Crehador so much as I’m absolutely certain they’ve had casual sex at least once.))
It’s May before Riff catches on, and he promptly wonders why it took that long. They’re out grocery shopping—grocery shopping, for Christ’s sake, how does Cain manage this—and Cain, as usual, has gotten bored and drifted away. Riff is studying the nutrition facts on a bottle of olive oil, trying to remember which companies were recently exposed as fraudulent and if this particular brand was one of them, or if the name sounds familiar because this is the one Cain prefers, when he hears a sort of rustling thud from behind him. He turns around to look at the shared cart and sees that Cain has returned, presumably from the tiny, supremely boring book section, as he’s just dumped five different coloring books and two packs of crayons into the cart. They’re the ones with sixty four different colors and the sharpener in the back.
“Cain?” he says, raising one eyebrow.
Cain shrugs. “I thought Abel might like them for Christmas.”
Riff frowns faintly. “Didn’t you just get him that stuffed owl for Christmas last week?” he asked.
“Yes?” Cain asks, in the sort of tone that clearly says he has no idea why this is a problem, or remotely unusual.
For a split second, Riff considers his arguments. This is the sixth ‘for Christmas’ present that Cain has gotten in the last month for their nephew. Abel already has more than enough crayons and coloring books that his parents have given him (and, regardless of Cain’s very biased opinion, Oscar is a more than capable father). They don’t need them now, and they probably won’t need them for Christmas either, and Riff still budgets like he needs to watch every penny and scrounge every quarter for laundry, which—okay, he’s working on it, but he’s also spent the last five minutes trying to decide which bottle of olive oil is most economical, so he’d be the first to admit he’s not made much progress. None of these are likely to make any sort of impact on Cain however.
Riff opens his mouth, wonders if he’s really going to be this evil, and says, “Okay. But I’m not wrapping them.”
Cain beats him at chess every single time still, but sometimes he doesn’t plan ahead in real life with the same skill. “Okay!” he agrees, and goes back to lounging over the handles on the cart in a way that makes his rear particularly noticeable. He doesn’t consider the consequences for one minute. Riff never expected him to.
—
It becomes something of a pattern. Gifts ‘for Christmas’ pile up in the attic, mostly little things that catch Cain’s fancy or interest. Riff picks up gifts too, of course. At six, Abel is precocious and adorable, redheaded like his father with his mother’s eyes and pale, delicate face. It would be hard for anyone to resist him, but Riff at least restrains himself to things he wouldn’t be able to get later, or that would be special.
When Cain drags them both to the museum over the summer holidays, Riff pays close attention to what catches Abel’s attention the most in the gift shop (that Cain doesn’t immediately buy for him, anyway), and looks for similar things—a model of a tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, for instance, or a better made model solar system than the styrofoam version that Cain almost dropped forty dollars on.
(Honestly, the place was obscenely over-priced, and Riff still barely managed to talk Cain out of the kiddy chemistry set—Abel was six, he didn’t need to be given any sort of acids yet, thank you.)
Riff also makes a point to wrap his own presents immediately and store them neatly away, usually with attached post it notes of what they are, just in case. He has every intention of sticking to that promise—nothing Cain buys is going to be wrapped by him. Nothing.
—
It’s deeply, darkly satisfying on December 24 to see Cain with tape stuck in his hair, standing over the kitchen table ankle deep in cut ribbon, cursing as the wrapping paper wrinkles again. Riff is in pajamas with a mug of hot cocoa—it’s almost eleven, and he has every intention of going to bed. He’s also probably going to cave in about two minutes and lend a hand, for Abel’s sake, but still. That’s in two minutes.
“Remind me,” Cain says bitterly when he flings the scissors down. He just pinched his fingers for the fifth time, “Why aren’t you wrapping anything right now?”
“Because I already did all my wrapping,” Riff replies as innocently as he can. “I told you when you bought everything that I’m not wrapping it. Every single time.” (He did, too—Riff is nothing if not consistent, occasionally stubborn, and very, very occasionally pure evil.)
Cain swears again. “Riffael Raffit, with God as my witness, if you go to bed, I will file for divorce in the morning,” he says. The wrapping paper tears and Cain flings the tape down so hard the plastic case cracks. “Mother of—”
Riff folds his lips tightly together and still doesn’t manage to stifle the laugh. “Would you like some help?” he asks, voice shaking.
Cain glares. He takes a deep breath through his nose, and lets it out slowly. “I hate you.”
“Of course.”
“No, I mean it, I really hate you.”
“Of course,” Riff says again.
Cain scowls down at the mess on the table. “Please?”
Riff sets the mug down on the counter and leans in to kiss Cain on the forehead. “All right. First, you never wrapped stuffed animals without a box.”
“…I still hate you.”
—
In February, Riff catches Cain looking speculatively at a toy store that’s just opened up across the street from their favorite coffee shop. He nudges Cain’s foot with his and leans forward, waiting until Cain leans in to whisper, “I’m not wrapping it.”
Thankfully he knows how to get coffee stains out of white shirts, but Riff would still consider the comment worth it even if he didn’t.
Fake Instagram || Count Cain
Eternally
Cain Saga/Godchild, Cain C. Hargreaves/Riffael "Riff" Raffit, M, 788, ao3.
Crehador przez przypadek odczytuje wspomnienia Riffa i Caina.
Earl Cain / Godchild || Riffael “Riff” Raffit
“The more I loved something, the more I suffered when he took them away . . . again and again. But this time . . . this time I won’t let him take you. You’re the last person I’d give him . . . That’s why I’m going to kill you with my own hands”
The Heart Of Everything : Within Temptation ~ What Have You Done